Re: Any suggestions on good CLI newsreaders?

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>]

Ah, that kind of news!  apt-get snownews then.



On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, John K Masters wrote:

> On 17:39 Mon 06 Aug     , Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> > John Hasler <jhasler <at> debian.org> writes:
> >
> > > Amit writes:
> > > > Any of you use newsreaders from the commandline.
> > >
> > > I doubt anyone uses a command-line newsreader but many use text-only
> > > newsreaders such as slrn and trn.  I use gnus, which can be either
> > > text-only on a console or GUI in X.
> > >
> > > > I'm using an old laptop with debian and I read a lot of news everyday and
> > > > loading the websites seems such a pain and slow process.
> > >
> > > What do Web sites have to do with news?
> >
> > News websites such as cnn, news.com, nytimes, etc. They have too many graphics
> > and ads which are not necessary. I guess I'm just looking for a more efficient
> > may to read the news.
>
> links2 - no fuss
>
> Regards, John
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